The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
Congratulations to Dr. Marleen Klann and Dr. Elaine Seaver! Their recently published paper titled “Functional role of pax6 during eye and nervous system development in the annelid Capitella teleta” was nominated for the 2019 Developmental Biology Outstanding Paper Award. Their paper is one of the 15 top papers published by the journal Developmental Biology in 2019, and was nominated based on ‘..quality of the published work and the number of downloads received in the first 3 months following online publication’.
The award is designed to promote early career researchers who have published in the journal, and therefore is awarded to early career researchers who are first authors of the published study. In 2018, the journal Developmental Biology published 270 original research papers. First prize includes an invited talk at the national conference for the Society for Developmental Biology to be held in Chicago in July 2020. Marleen is a previous postdoctoral scholar from the Seaver lab, and performed the experiments for this publication while at Whitney. Well done Marleen!